Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 13 May 2015
Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis
Nexus Phase
Mr. Patrick Davitt:
Well, there are none ... up to this date there's none. But when the new European mortgage directive comes into effect in March of next year ... 2016, there will be then ... Ireland will have to have valuation standards and national valuation standards because it's a ... Article 26 of the mortgage directive it says that there has to be valuation standards that are recognised as European or international valuation standards. So they're going to have to come in then. But there was none actually in the country that you could use or that people would use or that valuers would use.